CONTINENTAL ITEMS. THE "MARCH OF PROGRESS" IN VENICE.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 141, 15 December 1881, Page 2

CONTINENTAL ITEMS. THE "MARCH OF PROGRESS" IN VENICE.

TERRIBLE TYPHOON IN TONQUIN. STATUE TO BYRON AT MISSOLONGHI. London, 20th November. Impending changes in Venice are deprecated by correspondents. The Syndicate and Prefect haying the control of municipal affairs are determined to fill up th« smaller canals and convert them into streets. Gondolas are threatened with absolute extinction, owing- to recent concessions to a steamer company on the Grand Canal. Through its competition, the gondoliers are reduced to poverty. It is openly stated that the municipal officers received 30,000 francs as the price oE their acquiescence in the changes. Gambetta has been entertained at a

banquet at Havre. In the course of hisBpeech he 6aid he had gone to Germany toBtudy the moans by which Bremen, Hamburg, Stettin, arid Lubeck, had attained their present greatness. A teloortm has been received by the Foreign MiHbionary Society of Paris, stating that a tefriblo typhoon had occurred in Western Tonqute, and that 200 churches, 34 parsonage cottages, «vnd 200 homes were destroyed ; 6000 Christiafls were ruined. Surcock and Dobbae, who 1 failed in Pans for 5,00 1,0000 francs, have disappeared. The police at Frankfnrt-on-Al*«e have seized and confiscated all posters M»d billswhich givo information to thoso intenOin? toemigrate to America. AfMiasolonghi, in Greece, Lori Byron uuveiled a statue of Byron, the great popular poet, amidst enthusiasm. Public meetings have been held in Paris to demand the abrogation of the degree against importations of American pork into Paris.